The tiger's wife /
Téa Obreht.
- Paperback edition.
- 335 pages ; 20 cm
"A Phoenix paperback"--Title page verso.
Remembering childhood stories her grandfather once told her, young physician Natalia becomes convinced that he spent his last days searching for "the deathless man," a vagabond who claimed to be immortal. As Natalia struggles to understand why her grandfather, a deeply rational man would go on such a farfetched journey, she stumbles across a clue that leads her to the extraordinary story of the tiger's wife.